In the last ten years -- more especially since 1844, when her son succeeded to the Shelley estates -- she had no need to write for money, and it is understood that she devoted the time to the composition of _Memoirs of Shelley_.

[69] For Blake and for Shelley, as well as, it may be added, for Hinton, chastity, as Todhunter remarks in his _Study of Shelley_, is "a type of submission to the actual, a renunciation of the infinite, and is therefore hated by them.

They are also symptoms, marks of social weakness and woe which Shelley is anxious to erase, representing the alienating power which seems in Shelley to emanate both from the despot and from despotic capital.